The Cost of Things, November 2024

in #alive26 days ago

I was out running erands and stopped to pick up a few groceries. I didn't need much, just some bread and eggs. And while I was there, picked up some sparkling water (which my family enjoys) and some cheese and a few extra items. When I checked out, the bill came to over $50.

I looked at my receipt and at my cart and back at the receipt. How could this be $50? I remember filling an entire shopping cart for $50 - $75. I did the math and calculated 16 items x $3.13 average price each and yes, that's about $50.00.

The other odd thing were the eggs. There was a 2 per customer limit. That's TWO breakfasts for my family! The price was $2.15 which is pretty good these days, as they are upwards of $4 - $5 else ware. Perhaps that's why it's limit 2.

But what are these "supply challenges"? What are the supply challenges? I wonder if this has to do with the "cage free" thing going on in Michigan?

On my way home I filled up the car with fuel. I was pleased to find gas for under $3.00 which I haven't seen for a while. I really hope these prices can be sustained or even better yet, reduced!

Today is November 5th, 2024 Election day. It will be interesting to see what a grocery basket costs next year 2025, along with eggs and gasoline.


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In Oman, it is still a less price for the groceries. But, in Bangladesh, it's almost killing the low and middle class people! Totally out of control.

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Trump won overwhelmingly last night, it'll be interesting to see what a shopping cart will look like one year from now. !BBH

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Prices have skyrocketed too in our country since Covid, groceries and gas among them.

The situation is worse in my country. Formerly the amount I spent in the upkeep of the family for three weeks now hardly take us 3 - 4 days. Is so serious.
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In my country we are the same, I am afraid when I have to buy groceries for my family, I never have enough money to buy everything I need.

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Things are getting more and more difficult all over. !BBH

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I bet it happens around the love. My 500 pesos (about $10) would only buy a few kilos of rice and meat that would not last for three days.

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Wow! $50 seems pretty expensive for not a lot of things! And 2 cartons of eggs? Yikes! We go through 15 dozen a week. They tried to limit me a while back to 5 dozen at the store, so I had to split up my cart and have kids pay in different lines! The men in my family need their eggs! Ha! My chicken have started producing more recently, thankfully, so now I don't have to buy as much. I buy eggs here on Thursdays when they're 20% off, so they're $1.56 a dozen at the moment. Gas looks super cheap! Nice!

I really hope gas prices stay low and get lower. Our family will have egg laying chickens some day, but most likely not here in the suburbs. 15 dozen eggs a week? That would be a lot of eggshells for our compost! !BBH

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Yes, I have been drying out and grinding up the eggshells and refeeding them to the chickens, but I got behind. Now I just throw them in the coop with the rest of the scraps that go to the chickens. My husband and oldest boys eat the majority of the eggs - they drink them raw in a shake to get more protein for their ever-increasing muscle mass thanks to lifting weights.

Eggs are a good source of protein. My wife just ordered beef geletin to put in our oatmeal to suppliment our missing eggs. Still, not the same. !BBH

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2.15 per dozen! Uau! Super cheap...

in NZ it's at least 2x that price (and probably on larger packs), if not 4x when you want the bigger ones.

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